Buddhism and the idea of human rights: resonances and dissonances (1).(COMPARATIVE ETHICS) From: Buddhist-Christian Studies | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

In 1991 L.P.N. Perera, Professor of Pali and Buddhist Studies in Sri Lanka, published a Buddhist commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this commentary Perera tries to show that, in the Pali canon, i.e. the canonical scripture of Theravada Buddhism, for every single article of the Human Rights Declaration a substantial parallel or at least a statement with a similar tendency can be found. Indeed, says Perera, Article 1, which affirms the dignity and rights of all humans, "is in complete accord with Buddhist thought, and may be said to be nothing new to ...

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